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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1496138" data-attributes="member: 5675">Spells blast, and blades flash, and even the intervention of a second yrthak did not stop the group from slaying the one which had taken their comrade away from them.The second creature fled in disarray, screaming its misery out to the cavern at large.A scream which was answered by not one, but two booming echoing screams.---The group fled back to their comrades at the wall, and began to panic."What do we do? What can we do?""We're all dead, I tell you. No way out!"Then, suddenly, a plan began to crystallise. Flee. Unwilling to face three flying, sonic-blasting, grabbing yrthaks, the group rapidly cast fly spells on one another, and Aeron intoned the words to a prayer of Find the Path, and the route to "the nearest way out" crystallised in his mind as a set of flashing lights trailing away into the darkness.Clutching Rand in one hand, and with the effect of a Divine Might still on him, he grabbed up Yvgeny and flew along the path at top speed; the little wings on his boots flailing away madly to keep him airborne. Halbrinn gave chase on tiny pixie wings, and Miles with his huge bat wings. Stedd simply ran, leapt, and gave chase, trying to keep the others in view and to stay ahead of the monstrous creatures which he knew were bearing down on them. "No way. There's no way we'll make it", he intoned over and over under his breath.Aeron lurched, his two companions dangling from his arms beneath him swinging wildly to the side and they hurtled over the ground, around stalacmites, and over a huge rocky outcropping. They dipped suddenly, and shot towards a crumbling, half-fallen tower. In Aeron's eyes, the flashing lines led straight into the small tower, and ended at a wall there.Pursued by his comrades, he dropped his two fellows, and tried to work out how a single mould-covered wall could possibly be their way out."Get out of the way", squeaked Halbrinn, wizard, locksmith, former cartographer and sometime archaeologist. "There's something under all this mould." His tiny hands scraped at the thick layer, revealing some words.Outside, the first lance of sound smashed down onto the outside of the tower, shattering rock and sending jagged shards through the darkness. The group ducked reflexively to avoid the blast."There! Writing!" Halbrinn squinted at the words in an archaic version of magick. "Abraxis meo... Clean me? What the...?"A second screaming noise smashed the wooden door into a million splinters.Rand looked around, and reflexively cast a tiny spell which scoured the wall of all the mould and grime. Abruptly, the wall disappeared behind a shimmering surface of silver.Another sonic lance smashed into the wall, blasting a hole straight through it.The group leapt, as one, into the silver surface, and were pulled across dimensions before being deposited, chilled to the bone, on the other side of the portal. Bright light poured down, half-blinding the group as they squinted around themselves."It's still active!" Miles shouted at the others and waving in the vague direction of the portal. "They'll be coming through any moment!"As if to prove something, the silvery wall of the portal bulged as though something was trying to push through from beyond."Dirty it!!" Halbrinn (still in the form of a pixie) squeaked at the others, before Rand looked around and scooped up a handful of hot dry dust from the floor. "Water!", he bellowed at the others, and Yvgeny obliged with a well-timed spell, turning the dust in Rand's hands (and at his feet) into thick gelatinous mud.With a splat, the mud sailed through the air and splattered against the sides of the portal, which abruptly shut off and turned silent.The group turned examine their new surroundings...</blockquote>

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